Publisher's Synopsis
Murder at a Mermaid NightclubThe enchanted village of Bijou Mer's on high alert, with the villainous Horace on the loose.Imogen's excited to escape the tension with a trip to the underwater Mermaid Kingdom to bakefor the young mermaid queen's engagement to the pirate king.But when the mermaids turn out to be less French Riviera and more Jersey shore, the bakersare wrapped up in their world of clubbing in sea caves and fighting off seals for the best tanningspots, and are embroiled in a pirate smuggling scandal. It gets worse when a member of themermaid court is found dead in a fishing net, and one of Imogen and Maple's baked goodsseems to be the murder weapon.Imogen tries to fish out the real murderer to clear their names, while struggling with herromantic feelings for Hank. At the same time, she's working with him to learn to control hermagic and investigate Horace's riddle and her own mysterious past.As the mermaid court's freewheeling lifestyle rubs off on the bakers, the gang lets loose andpassions rise to the surface. But with a giant octopus crawling the ocean floor, the mermaidcourt filled with simmering secrets and scandals, and the ever present threat of the BadlandsArmy, Imogen must solve the murder before she ends up fish food herself.
